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Tan, Charlene – Journal of Moral Education, 2021
Addressing a research gap on the relationship between mindfulness and morality, this paper draws insights from Confucius' notion of "jing." I explain how "jing" essentially refers to maintaining a full, respectful and humanity-centred attention towards others. To illustrate the application of Confucius' conception of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Moral Values, Social Values, Ethics
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Ng, Grace – Christian Higher Education, 2019
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing population of any minority group in the United States (Lopez, Ruiz, & Patten, 2017). As colleges seek to become more diverse and increase their enrollment of minority students, educators need to understand the cultural dynamics that affect Asian Americans in the classroom. Because the Confucian values of…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Psychological Patterns, Minority Group Students, Confucianism
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He, Ming Fang – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2013
In this article, the author explores an East-West epistemological convergence of humanism illuminated in three main themes in the works of Confucius (551-479 BC), Makiguchi Tsunesaburo (1871-1944), and John Dewey (1859-1952): "human-nature interconnection," "associated self-cultivation," and "value creation." She contends that these thinkers'…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Ideology, Epistemology, Humanism
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Zhao, Kang; Biesta, Gert J. J. – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2011
Current theory, policy, and practice of lifelong learning are strongly influenced by ideas about the transformations that are taking place in contemporary societies. One influential set of ideas emphasizes that because of the rapid changes that are taking place in the (late-) modern world and because of the erosion of traditions, there is a…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Lifelong Learning, Self Concept, Moral Values
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van de Vijver, Fons J. R. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
It is argued that Stankov's proposal to view unforgivingness as underlying the combination of high educational achievement, anxiety, and self-doubt is an original way of summarizing Confucian score patterns. However, it is argued that the proposal cannot explain why reading scores in Confucian countries are not higher than in other countries and…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Anxiety, Self Concept, Confucianism
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Zhao, Guoping – Educational Theory, 2007
The postmodern critique of modernity has focused on the construction of the modern subject and the self-disciplining and self-cancellation tendencies within it. This critique, however, fails to consider what happens during the early years of children's development--the period during which the modern subject is made, and the one in which the…
Descriptors: Ideology, Child Development, Cultural Influences, Self Concept